San Diegans have even more options to get a ride around town when they’re not able to drive. The number of available ridesharing services has surged fairly recently as new, smaller companies have launched apps to compete with Uber and Lyft — along with traditional taxis — for passengers and market share.

Tijuana will need 300,000 residential units and tens of millions of square feet of industrial, warehouse, office, retail and hotel development by 2025, according to Softec, a Mexico City-based demographic and real estate research firm.

New products such as the Buttery Jack have boosted sales at San Diego’s Jack in the Box (Nasdaq: JACK), but the real secret to its success is real estate, according to Wunderlich Securities analyst Robert Derrington.

The owners of Gaslamp Tavern, an open-air sports pub that has been at the corner of Fifth Avenue and G Street for nearly a decade, unveiled the tavern’s remodel last week along with their newest project, Quad AleHouse.

The term “social climber” will take on new meaning and fitness enthusiasts will have a new place to hang out, quite literally, in Mission Valley when construction is completed this fall on the new $5 million Mesa Rim Climbing and Fitness Center.

Jeff Josenhans’ career has been marked by firsts. As director of banquets, restaurants and bars at The US Grant hotel, he is the only person in the country who possesses the titles of sommelier, cicerone and mixologist.

SeaWorld -- whose safety practices have been under scrutiny since an animal trainer was killed in 2010 by an orca at its Orlando, Florida, park -- has now been cited for not adequately protecting its killer-whale trainers at its park in San Diego.